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View ArticleGlobal Oil Exploration Companies Are Looking to Exit India ; Fed Up of...
India's oil and gas explorations face fresh hurdles. While New Delhi has never been able to attract top multinational energy giants to drill in its territory, it is now scaring away even the few...
View ArticleHealing Touch ; the Retrospective Tax Amendments in Last Year's Budget...
The broad contours of the recommendations made by the Parthasarathi Shome Committee, tasked by the finance ministry to re- examine the last Union Budget's controversial retrospective tax amendment,...
View ArticleOn Record/Inflation at 7.8%, a 10-Month High ; It Is Very Difficult for RBI...
"It is very difficult for RBI to cut interest rates because (inflation) numbers don't justify reduction" Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, in Business Standard "When you raise a key price like diesel, in...
View ArticleThe Right Dose? ; the Government Mulls Price Control of More Essential Drugs
The UPA government has told the Supreme Court that it will frame a new policy for pricing essential drugs by end-November. Currently, only 74 drugs are under price control. The government now wants to...
View Article2012 Indian GP: Will Jaypee Repeat Its Performance? ; Jaypee Sports Has Spent...
A sharp left turn, his final one that day, and Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel was zipping past the chequered flag waved by cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. It was October 30, 2011. Vettel, who had...
View ArticleNumber Nawabs ; Data Scientists Are the Next Big Thing on the Global Jobs...
Until March this year, the desktops and notebooks displayed on technology solutions company Dell's website were ranked without much consideration to what users were looking for. Kiran Rama, 31, a...
View Article'Our Focus at TCS Continues to Be Customer Driven' ; the Combination of...
None of the aggression TCS has lately been displaying is evident in the demeanour of its CEO and Managing Director, N. Chandrasekaran. He is immensely restrained, speaking softly in a tone that hardly...
View ArticleSwinging Too Far ; What Is Bipolar Disorder and How to Control It
A Gurgaon-based BPO employee, whose name is being withheld to protect his identity, had set his heart on buying his own home. He had arranged a housing loan, but knew he would be able to pay back the...
View ArticleBT 500: TCS Is the Most Valuable Company of 2012 ; TCS Has, for the First...
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, 49, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) wakes up at 4 am every day to go for a run. He has been a marathon runner since 2007. "Well-being is...
View ArticleRIL Cedes the No.1 Spot on BT 500 Listing ; after Monopolising the Top Spot...
After monopolising the top spot in the BT 500 ranking for nine years, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) had to make way for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) this year. RIL, famed for...
View ArticleCrude Price Rise May Hurt Defensives ; Crude Prices Have Had a Strong...
Issues related to oil imports are part of India's huge energy needs and limited resources. India has been importing crude oil and coal and exporting petroleum products for decades. However, the export...
View ArticlePeople Business ; People Who Made News Last Fortnight, Featuring Vikram...
ACCOUNT CLOSURE A few months before he took over as the CEO of the global banking giant Citigroup in December 2007, VIKRAM PANDIT bought an apartment in a landmark building in Manhattan where other...
View ArticleThe World in Your Pocket ; If God Is in the Details, Digital Maps Have...
If you wanted precise road directions in Delhi a few years ago, an Eicher map was the best bet. The kind of detail it provided had never been seen on maps before. But today, there is a map as detailed...
View ArticleHope in the Festive Season ; Invest in Commodities, as Their Demand Usually...
The festival season, which starts in August, is the best period for commodity investors. It starts with Raksha Bandhan and ends with Diwali. This is followed by the peak marriage season. High demand in...
View Article'Reforms Can Go Much Further, Much Faster' ; Hans-Paul Burkner, President and...
Hans-Paul Burkner, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was in Mumbai recently on a whistlestop tour. Burkner, 59, will be demitting office on January 1 to become chairman of the management...
View ArticleBT 500: Infra, Banking and Mining Companies among Top Losers ;...
The Reserve Bank of India issued guidelines in March this year that would unsettle specialised gold loan companies . The organised gold loan market had grown at a compound annual growth rate of some 45...
View ArticleMethodology: The Ranking Process ; as in 2011, Private and Public Sector...
As in 2011, private and public sector companies have been clubbed to produce a single, comprehensive ranking. This is the 21st year of the BT 500 list, an annual ranking of the most valuable companies...
View ArticleFastest Growing Conglomerates ; the Bajaj Group, Ranked 6th in Terms of Mcap,...
When Ratan Tata steps down as Chairman of Tata Sons in December, he can do so with a sense of satisfaction in the knowledge that the group he steered through two decades of economic reform is India's...
View ArticleIndia's Most Valuable Companies ; the Reigning Champion Has Been Dethroned....
The reigning champion has been dethroned. For the last nine years, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) had topped the annual BT 500 ranking of India's most valuable companies. But in 2012, as we reached the...
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